Defn: Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.
BESEEM
Be*seem", v. i.
Defn: To seem; to appear; to be fitting. [Obs.] "As beseemed best."
Spenser.
BESEEMING
Be*seem"ing, n.
1. Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.] I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak.
2. Comeliness. Baret.
BESEEMING
Be*seem"ing, a.
Defn: Becoming; suitable. [Archaic] — Be*seem"ing*ly, adv.
— Be*seem"ing*ness, n.
BESEEMLY
Be*seem"ly, a.
Defn: Fit; suitable; becoming. [Archaic]
In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.